If you want to see the Fourth of July parade in your little hometown, you should book your flight now. Otherwise, you may have to drive there, or watch a video of the floats via an old friend's smartphone.

There is a public meeting Wednesday night on a proposal for the Urbana & Champaign Sanitary District to sell millions of gallons of treated wastewater to Cronus Chemical LLC, a company that is thinking about building a fertilizer plant in Tuscola.